These days, does anybody write? Why, most people prefer to orally send even their WhatsApp messages. Typing a message is considered either bothersome or boring! No, it is not merely the human tendency to laze around.
Why, every recent most technology, be it the simple WhatsApp or the latest ChatGPT version or some such recent most, and never nascent, AI avataar, it assures you that you have to speak the message, and it would get converted in to the written form, if you so wish at all!
Dictators hence most people are! Do remember that such habits enter the human psyche, and start twisting it accordingly. When you speak, for instance, you hardly think. Rather you shoot ( n scoot!)
When you write, irresponsible you are not allowed to be. You tend to think through. Automatically you get to to correct yourself. Such a self-check, both literally and metaphorically, is absent when you choose to speak!
If this is the condition of the daily, banal exchanges which, moreover, are invaded by that modern hieroglyphic called the emojis, imagine the condition of any serious writing.
As it is, most readers (a quite rare tribe, given the yen for browsing!) anyways read the DIY, the "useful" kind of books. Given the information explosion, coupled with the summarising, re-presenting, editing technologies, forget students, even most lecturers refuse to touch serious tomes reference material with a barge pole! .
In such a scenario, how about literature? Well, given the curtailed attention span, everyone explores not even short stories, well, even editors glorify "flash fiction"! May be, payment might be the consideration, too, given the tough times most publication houses face! These two/three hundred words, moreover, might be machine made!
If such such are the times, great need there is to respect authors who are still ready to spend their time, intellectual energy and innate creativity to craft a book, be it literary or be it on a knowledge-able(d) reference material types. Hence the relevance of March 3, the international writers day! The 3/3 is indeed auspicious!
Pratima@Authors, whether they attempt discursive, journalistic or creative writing, are using both intellectual and imaginative resources to creatively craft an alternative world through words. Thus authors open up the existing world, too. Hence are inequalities, inequities, injustices lesson-ed n lessen-ed! Long live authors! The writerly space is indeed sacrosanct!
Quote of the day: Says Susan Sontang, "A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
Expression of the day: attention deficit Attention deficit refers to inattention and not being able to keep focus which may result in impulsive hyper activity, especially among children.
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